Harpoon, an Original Serious Game

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Harpoon, an Original Serious Game

• Overview of the product timeline
• Brief introduction to the paper and three
  computer products
• Dual use of the paper product
• War stories of the commercial products
• Current analytical use of the H3 Pro product
• Survey of Audience

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What is Harpoon?

• A constructive tactical manual simulation of
  modern surface, subsurface, air and land units
  using open source data.
• Developed by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson, with
  data and scenarios supplemented by an
  international crew of grognards.

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HarpoonAn Original Serious Game
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What is Computer Harpoon?

• A constructive tactical/operational simulation of
  surface, subsurface, air and land units using
  open source data and models that runs on Windows
  PCs.
• Single or multiple players.
• Scenarios and Databases are completely open.
• 30 staff years of effort and 2 million lines of
  code.
• Since 1999 updated and expanded using
  non-traditional business model, staff and
  partners.

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HarpoonAn Original Serious Game
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2006
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2006
2001
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Harpoon Classic
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Vessel - Radar
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Harpoon 3
Harpoon 3 Commercial and Professional
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Harpoon 3 (H3)Advanced Naval Warfare

• Created from Harpoon II
• Commercial and Professional products
• Scenario Editor and Database Editors
• Hundreds of Scenarios, thousands of Systems and
  Platforms
• Multiplayer plays on a LAN or on the Internet

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H3 Basic Display
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H3 Database Editing
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H3 GIS
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H3 Pro Pro Features
STK v4.5 Application
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Historical Use Paper Version

• The Motivation
• The 1st Edition
• Users
• University of Minnesota NROTC
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Interagency Military Analysis Course

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Historical use Computer

• Naval War College ENWGS scenario prototyping
• USNIs distribution of Harpoon Classic.
• RAND Corporation Paper on Taiwan/PRC Dire
  Straits
• John Hopkins (Eliot Good/Tom xx)
• All sorts of unofficial use

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Current use - Professional

• ADOD
• Features added
• Lightweight analysis used to queue up HWMST
• Acquisition support
• Northrop Grumman
• Features added
• Lightweight analysis used to screen scenarios
  for HWMST.

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Trivia

• Used in the early Clancy and Bond books
• Seen on ABCs 60 Minutes
• Everyone thinks it is an AGM-84 Missile simulator
• SAIC and Syscon had options on Pro versions
• Only game software ever sold by USNI
• The CEO of the publisher was the model for the
  Captain on the first box cover.

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Contact

• Don R. Gilman, P.E.
• Advanced Gaming Systems Inc.
• dgilman_at_advancedgaming.biz
• http//www.computerharpoon.com
• 979.229.1053